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  Nuclear Disarmament Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The NDP was founded by a Canberra doctor and peace activist, Dr Michael Denborough, in response to the world political situation in the early 1980s, particularly the arms race between the United States under Ronald Reagan and the Soviet Union.
Such activists were disappointed that the Australian Labor Party government of Bob Hawke, elected in 1983, had not taken a stronger stance against the policies of the U.S. At the December 1984 federal elections, the NDP recruited high-profile candidates to stand for the Australian Senate, which is elected by proportional representation.
Dunn refused, and was expelled from the NDP.
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 Nuclear Disarmament Party: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The communist party of australia was founded in sydney on 30 october 1920 by a group of socialists inspired by reports of the russian revolution....
The protectionist party was a political party in australia from the 1880s until 1909....
National action was an australian political party that was said to be on the far-right of the political spectrum....
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/n/nu/nuclear_disarmament_party.htm   (1424 words)

  
 CND Home page
On 16 May 2006, Tony Blair announced that nuclear power is back on Britain’s agenda ‘with a vengeance.’ Blair is pre-empting the government’s energy review due to be published in July, and ignoring the advice of many government and independent committees which say that nuclear power has no place in Britain’s future energy mix.
Nuclear power will not halt climate change – in fact, even if we doubled the amount of nuclear power in the UK there would only be an 8% reduction in greenhouse gases.
CND campaigns for the establishment of a British nuclear waste management policy and no more reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel, as well as the prevention of the re-use and transport of plutonium.
www.cnduk.org   (935 words)

  
 Nuclear terrorism realities - The Washington Times: World Briefings - June 28, 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
A nuclear catastrophe could occur if terrorists gained access to nuclear weapons or weapons-grade materials, and if regional conflicts or instability degenerated into wars in which nuclear weapons were used, said a report by researchers at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace to a Nonproliferation Conference last week.
Nuclear terrorism on the one hand, and regional proliferation and conflict on the other, are the two most pressing nuclear threats facing the world today, according to "Universal Compliance: A Strategy for Nuclear Security," the preliminary report by George Perkovich, Joseph Cirincione, Rose Gottemoeller, Jon Wolfsthal and Jessica Mathews.
In a region where Israel has nuclear weapons and other Middle Eastern states have, or are suspected to have, chemical and biological weapons, a nuclear Iran would add "grave volatility to an already conflicted region," the Carnegie report said.
www.washtimes.com /world/20040628-121252-5928r.htm   (1456 words)

  
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The documents indicate that despite appearances to the contrary, the Americans estimated at that early stage Israel was misleading the United States and acting to acquire nuclear armaments.
According to the recently declassified documents, the U.S. government possessed significant evidence indicating Israel was indeed pursuing a nuclear path aimed at producing weapons.
The document also noted Israel was in possession of a French-made bomber that would have been able to carry nuclear weapons to a 550-mile range.
www.ynetnews.com /articles/0,7340,L-3094186,00.html   (443 words)

  
 Nuclear Age Peace Foundation Monthly E-Newsletter, The Sunflower Newsletter No. 85, June 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
At least before, there was a recognition that the NPT was obtained in 1970 through a bargain, with the Nuclear Weapons States agreeing to negotiate the elimination of their nuclear weapons in return for the non-nuclear states shunning the acquisition of nuclear weapons.
The whole international community, nuclear and non-nuclear alike, is concerned about proliferation, but the new attempt by the Nuclear Weapon States to gloss over the discriminatory aspects of the NPT, which are now becoming permanent, has caused the patience of the members of the Non-Aligned Movement to snap.
Claiming that nuclear power is the cleanest and safest of all energy sources, Lovelock urged his friends in the green movement to drop their “wrongheaded objection” to nuclear energy.
www.wagingpeace.org /menu/resources/sunflower/2004/06_sunflower.htm   (8111 words)

  
 Iraq Disarmament Crisis Encyclopedia @ NaturalResearch.org (Natural Research)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The issue of Iraq's disarmament reached a crisis in 2002-2003, when U.S. President George W. Bush demanded a complete end to alleged Iraqi production and use of weapons of mass destruction and that Iraq comply with UN Resolutions requiring UN inspectors unfettered access to areas those inspectors thought might have weapons production facilities.
Also, mobile laboratories, alleged at the time to be used to create chemical or biological weapons, were discovered shortly after the invasion, but subsequent testing of the mobile labs did not provide direct proof that they had anything to do with weapons production [6] [7].
Although it received only mild press attention, a March 6, 2003 report by the UN nuclear inspectors cast serious doubt of the existent and extent of a then current Iraqi nuclear program.
www.naturalresearch.org /encyclopedia/Iraq_disarmament_crisis   (4359 words)

  
 US nuclear warplans fly around the internet | Greenpeace International
He was talking about a document, yanked from a Pentagon website on September 19th, which outlines US nuclear warfighting plans, including the pre-emptive use of nuclear weapons and the use of nukes in conventional war.
Comments to the document by the various military branches reveal squabbling about who gets to run a nuclear war, a disagreement about the legality of pre-emptive warfighting strategies, and a discussion of the etiquette of alerting allied troops that a nuclear attack is coming their way.
Nuclear warfighting plans concern all of us -- they shouldn't be kept secret.
www.greenpeace.org /international/news/nuclear-warplans-101   (831 words)

  
 ENVIRONMENT-FRANCE: Dangerous Summer for Nuclear Power Plants
According to Lhomme, the southwestern nuclear plant at Blayais, on the Gironda River estuary, committed 50 infractions in 2003.
In the Rhone valley, which runs from Switzerland to the Mediterranean and with five nuclear power plants along the river, the ambient temperature is already reaching an average of 35 degrees, and the temperature of the river itself more than 20 degrees.
Disconnecting one or several nuclear plants would create a huge energy problem, given that in the summer, especially one that is very warm and dry, there is a decline in output from hydroelectric power plants, the country's second leading energy source.
www.ipsnews.net /news.asp?idnews=29441   (919 words)

  
 The Acronym Institute for Disarmament Diplomacy
Disarmament Diplomacy, with comprehensive overview of news, events and documentation relating to disarmament negotiations and developments in proliferation.
Disarmament and Sustainable Non-Proliferation, by Dr Rebecca Johnson, Presentation to the International Conference on Iran's nuclear energy programme: Politics and Prospects Centre for Strategic Research, Tehran, April 25, 2006.
Disarmament Documentation is a compilation of recent official documents and statements relevant to arms control, non-proliferation and disarmament.
www.acronym.org.uk   (776 words)

  
 BASIC Briefing
The US nuclear weapons based in Europe are in the sole possession and under constant and complete custody and control of the United States.
The implication of this is that once a war has started, nuclear weapons could be transferred to the sharing member-state and used in any situation which the NATO command deemed necessary, including first use against an enemy using any type of conventional or mass destruction weapon.
There is a clear distinction between withdrawing part (or even all) of the tactical nuclear weapons on the one hand, and abandoning NATO nuclear policy, on the other.
www.basicint.org /pubs/20040629NATO-nuclear-Koster.htm   (1520 words)

  
 New Accord a Modest Step to Ease Nuke Danger - by Praful Bidwai
Once nuclear weapons are deployed in the field, there is a definite risk that they might be used — unauthorizedly, unintentionally, or by design.
This exposed the inadequacy of the Lahore agreements on nuclear and missile confidence-building.
Praful Bidwai is a New Delhi-based political analyst and peace activist, a columnist with twenty-five Indian newspapers and co-author (with Achin Vanaik) of New Nukes: India, Pakistan and Global Nuclear Disarmament.
www.antiwar.com /bidwai?articleid=2854   (1209 words)

  
 Nuclear Disarmament Party - Home Page
With Bush developing new nuclear weapons, and threatening to use them on seven countries, the threat of nuclear war is greater than it has ever been.
The punitive, militaristic approach of the "War against Terrorism" is not working and is leading to escalating violence, and increasing numbers of suicide bombers, who are born out of poverty, repression and despair.
Instead of spending billions of dollars on new nuclear weapons, and threatening to use them, the money should be spent on alleviating the suffering in countries where suicide bombers are found.
www.nucleardisarmament.org   (248 words)

  
 A Real Threat: Madmen, Rogues & Nukes - Newsweek: World News - MSNBC.com
Nuclear proliferation is, after all, a classic wonk's issue.
But George W. Bush and John Kerry agreed on this and little else in their debate last week: the spread of nuclear fissile material, equipment and know-how is their top national-security priority.
And America's No. 1 nightmare is that proliferation may yield a nuclear device detonated by terrorists in a U.S. city.
msnbc.msn.com /id/6161107/site/newsweek   (1044 words)

  
 deseretnews.com | Pressure mounts for nuclear tests   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
WASHINGTON — In another sign that pressure is mounting to resume underground nuclear testing in Nevada upwind from Utah, a British think tank now worries aloud that Britain may want to join such testing to modernize its aging nuclear stockpile.
Nigel Chamberlain, BASIC's nuclear analyst, said renewing it without close questioning and outlining of goals may suggest to the world that Britain and America are working on new and better nuclear weapons while they are trying to prevent other countries from developing any at all.
Chamberlain's group is concerned that with the Trident nearing the end of its intended life span, British scientists — if the Mutual Defense Agreement is extended — may tap into the development of smaller more usable weapons such as the mininukes and bunker-busters receiving early study now by the Bush administration.
deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,595074120,00.html   (726 words)

  
 Vanunu - the facts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The nuclear danger is the dominating theme, repeated endlessly, in the prolific flow of letters from Vanunu´s prison cell.
Israel´s nuclear policy is one of deliberate ambiguity: it does not formally acknowldedge the possession of the bomb, but it wants everybody to know that it does have the bomb.
Having followed developments in nuclear weapons throughout the years, I am firmly of the opinion that there is nothing of significance that he could tell at the present time that is not already known and published.
www.peaceispossible.info /Vanunu.html   (4104 words)

  
 Old weapons, new terror worries | csmonitor.com
But such what-ifs are among the nuclear terrorism threats that analysts are reexamining, as the learning curve of terror groups today comes closer to intersecting the vulnerabilities of atomic arsenals.
A handful of Russian and American nuclear experts, both military and civilian, are quietly convening a first meeting in Moscow later this month, to launch a year-long modeling exercise to specify the new dangers.
The days of the "desperate insider" of the 1990s - when guards at nuclear sites left their posts to forage for food, or electricity to alarms and weapons systems was cut because bills had gone unpaid - are now giving way to the "greedy insider," Bunn adds.
www.csmonitor.com /2004/0415/p06s02-woeu.html   (1740 words)

  
 Nuclear Free Australia
The debate, framed by government and the nuclear industry in opposition to coal power, is a radioactive smokescreen to expand uranium mining.
Nuclear power uses vast amounts of water, (up to 153 million litres of water per day from the Great Artesian Basin is proposed by BHP Billiton for Olympic Dam mine alone, along with a proposed 400 megawatt power station)
Nuclear Free Australia (NFA) exists to work towards the elimination of the nuclear industry in all its forms both in Australia and worldwide.
www.nukefreeaus.org   (416 words)

  
 Anti-nuclear protester run over by train in France. 08/11/2004. ABC News Online
The 21-year-old man, who had chained himself to the railway near the city of Nancy, lost a leg after he was crushed by the train and died despite receiving emergency treatment at the scene.
The authorities said the accident happened in the early afternoon in the town of Avricourt after a group of eight people gathered near the main Paris to Strasbourg line, on which the nuclear transport train was travelling.
Earlier the train, which was carrying treated nuclear waste from the French plant at La Hague to Gorleben in northern Germany was delayed for two hours near Nancy as police removed two protesters who had also chained themselves to the railway lines.
www.abc.net.au /news/newsitems/200411/s1237250.htm   (352 words)

  
 Peter Garrett is Trotskyist-aware
Especially at the Sydney branch of the NDP, DSP members were joining the NDP and voting as a block, having made their mind up on an issue before it was put to the NDP meeting.
The Nuclear Disarmament Party is and must remain a broadly based popular movement which will not be viable if it polarizes to the left or the right.
A MAJOR fight has split the fledgeling Nuclear Disarmament Party because of an influx of members of the Socialist Workers' Party within its ranks, and a new anti-nuclear party may be formed to counter the growing SWP inflnence.
users.cyberone.com.au /myers/trots-ndp.html   (2390 words)

  
 Iran in bombsights? - The Washington Times: Commentary - July 05, 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
U.S. air strikes at this juncture would quickly be equated with the CIA-engineered coup that overthrew Iran's socialist leader Mohammad Mossadegh in 1953, which many Iranians say led to the Iranian Revolution of 1978-79 that overthrew the monarchy, forced the late shah into exile, and allowed obscurantist mullahs to rule the country.
Israeli leaders concluded years ago that A.Q. Khan, the father of Pakistan's nuclear bomb and the world's biggest nuclear proliferator, had sold bomb-making wherewithal to Iran and nothing would reverse this capability short of air strikes, similar to the one Israeli fighter-bombers conducted in 1981 against Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor near Baghdad.
Begin feared his party would lose the next election, and the opposition Labor Party would fail to pre-empt prior to production of the first Iraqi nuclear bomb.
www.washingtontimes.com /commentary/20040704-111252-6746r.htm   (1002 words)

  
 Iran's Dire Threat, printer friendly version
Thus, the claims that Iran is trying to become a nuclear power have become the continuous basis of news, with all the details and claims of its moves toward nuclear capability newsworthy, emanating as they are from a superpower that is a primary-definer-plus.
The frame of Sanger’s article is the threat of the nuclear ambitions of Iran and North Korea, the efforts to contain that threat via diplomacy, the difficulties encountered in these efforts, U.S. and Israeli concerns over the matter, and the opinions of Western officials and experts over what should be done.
Israel claims that its nuclear weapons are for self-defense in a hostile environment, but Iran, threatened by both Israel and its superpower ally, does not have that right, although its self-defense needs are far more serious than either Israel’s or the U.S.’s.
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 Nuclear disarmament @ BasketballLiving.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Nuclear disarmament has become one of the most important elements of safe future and peaceful cooperation between the countries around the world.
EU - WMD - Blix Former United Nations weapons inspector now nuclear disarmament advocate Hans Blix has welcomed the new western overtures to talk with the Islamic Republic to resolve the nuclear stand-off.
Blix: Britain is at nuclear crossroads (The Herald)
www.basketballliving.com /allabout/Nuclear_disarmament   (420 words)

  
 Planet Ark : German Minister Dismisses Nuclear Power Lobby
He added that those advocating a longer life for the country's nuclear power stations were simply seeking to increase earnings for the affected firms.
The first new nuclear plant on the continent in years is being built in Finland.
One reason for nuclear's return to favour is the fact that nuclear reactors emit virtually no greenhouse gases.
www.planetark.org /dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/34350/story.htm   (657 words)

  
 New Scientist Breaking News - Secret nuclear waste disposal sites revealed   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The highly sensitive shortlist of 12 sites where the UK nuclear industry wanted to dispose of its dangerous radioactive waste has been unveiled after being kept a closely guarded state secret for more than 15 years.
More than 50 years ago, the UK was one of the first countries in the world to develop nuclear fission technology into bombs and power sources.
One of the sites, near the Sellafield nuclear plant in Cumbria, was eventually chosen by Nirex, but it was rejected by the government in 1997 after a public inquiry suggested Nirex's case was scientifically flawed.
www.newscientist.com /article.ns?id=dn7504   (804 words)

  
 Nuclear Disarmament Party
The ultimate expression of greed and aggression is the possession of nuclear weapons.
Individuals throughout the world must demand together that their governments abandon the militaristic, nuclear and greedy policies of the past.
The policies of the Nuclear Disarmament Party have been drawn up with this in mind.
pandora.nla.gov.au /pan/22206/20011102/www.nucleardisarmament.org/policies.htm   (864 words)

  
 Wired News: New Nuclear Program Sidelined
But the Bush administration's push to research and develop new nuclear weapons could be on the verge of collapse, after a key Congressional leader moved on Wednesday to eliminate funding for the atomic arms projects.
But, despite the proposal, much of the country's nuclear arms budget is still at "Cold War" levels, Hobson complained in a statement.
But the nuclear weapons budget still has a long way to go before Hobson's cuts are made final.
www.wired.com /news/politics/0,1283,63795,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1   (787 words)

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